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U.S. spending on video-game hardware totaled $109.5 million in April, a decline of 42% from a year ago, according to The NPD Group. All retail April sales of game products came in at $495.2 million, a 25% drop from the same month in 2012, the market research firm reports. With sales of 130,000 units, the Xbox 360 remained the top-selling console last month, NPD noted.

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The November launches of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One led to $1.33 billion in U.S. sales of video-game hardware, compared with $839.1 million a year ago, according to The NPD Group. The month marked the end of a two-year decline in sales of game hardware, the market research firm noted. Gamers were apparently spending most of their money on the new Sony and Microsoft consoles as U.S. retail sales of game software declined by 24% from a year earlier to $1.1 billion, NPD reported. Sales of all game hardware, software and accessories were up 7% in November to $2.7 billion, compared with November 2012.

Retail sales of video-game products in the U.S. were $593.3 million last month, a 15% decline from $700.6 million a year earlier, according to The NPD Group. Game hardware witnessed a 30% drop in June sales, to $142 million from last year's $201.5 million, the market research firm estimated. Microsoft reported that it sold 140,000 Xbox 360 consoles in June, the 30th consecutive month that the Xbox 360 has been the best-selling console in the U.S.

U.S. retail sales of video-game software were $187.6 million in May, down 44% from $335.2 million a year ago, according to The NPD Group. Overall sales of game hardware, software and accessories were $386.3 million last month, compared with $517 million in May 2012, the market research firm reports. May's sales figures were the worst since May 2000, NPD's Liam Callahan noted.

April's retail sales of video games came in at $630.4 million, compared with the year-earlier figure of $930.9 million, The NPD Group reports. The market research firm pointed to the paucity of new releases and the early Easter holiday as contributing factors in the decline. Game accessories managed to post an increase from sales in April 2011, while software sales fell almost 42% from a year earlier and hardware sales were down 32%, according to NPD.

Retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories totaled $1.1 billion in March, which was down 25% from $1.47 billion a year earlier, according to The NPD Group. Even with the March 6 launch of "Mass Effect 3" by Electronic Arts, software sales were off 25% for the month, to $553.1 million. NPD noted that Nintendo launched its 3DS console in March 2011, which helped pump up hardware sales to $494.5 million that month.